English Proposed as Second Language for Danes

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English in Denmark, the Danish people use their native dialect in their everyday lives but not many are knowledgeable about the English language. There are Danes who know how to speak a little English but they need to improve more on this language to become competitive as they start their professional careers. As students, however, they have an opportunity to study other languages and English is one of them.

There’s a new proposal today in Denmark to allow children to study English at an earlier age. This is through the new language strategy initiated by the Danish Education and Science Ministry working group. 

Recently, the education working group has recommended that kids in Denmark should start learning foreign languages earlier than usual. The present set-up is that children have to reach the age of seven before they can learn a foreign language but with this new language program, kids no longer have to wait until their 7th year before they can learn other languages such as French or German.

Members of the education working group believe that when they learn a new language at an early age, they can master it with much confidence. Unlike what’s happening right now when students are taught a foreign language at the start of puberty when they are not so interested in the subject at all. At the age of 7, for instance, youngsters are interested in a lot of things and are conscious about making mistakes in speaking languages they’re not familiar of. 

Another recommendation is to make English as the second language in this Scandinavian country. Through this plan, the government hopes to improve the language system in Denmark.

Currently, there are numerous educational institutions in Denmark that offer English language lessons from elementary to college and even in advanced courses. This is not surprising at all what with the great number of international students choosing Denmark as their education destination.

Denmark Stats in English Beneficial

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Each year, Denmark accommodates thousands of people of varied nationalities either as immigrants, students, employees or tourists. Denmark information concerning the country’s population can be gathered from the Statistics Yearbook.

While this Nordic country has its very own language, authorities believe it is important that they provide vital information in English as well for the benefit of foreigners who want to learn more about Denmark. The National Statistics Agency just did this in their new statistics yearbook.

The Statistics Yearbook published every year by Statistics Denmark contains billions of vital data. For instance, the number of people in the country aged more than 100 has increased from only 158 in 1990 to 806 in the current year. Did you also know that every seventh Dane has Hansen, Jensen or Nielsen in his surname?

If you’d like to get to know all about Denmark, its history, cultural heirtage and its people, the publication is your best resource. You will get a lot of interesting and useful information. The Statistical Yearbook 2009 was published just this June 11. The English version of the yearbook can be downloaded for free at the Statistics Denmark site www.dst.dk.

The editor of the yearbook, Stefan Jul Gunnersen, explained many people from other countries are interested in statistics the reason why it is crucial for the statistics agency to provide data in another language. They may be students visiting Denmark or institutions researching for world statistics.

It was in 1896 when the Statistics Yearbook was first published in the Denmark language. English translations were provided in 1952 and by 2000, a separate English version was published primarily aimed at foreign readers.

By early this year, majority of immigrants in the country and their families come from Germany, Turkey and Iraq. Foreigners comprise approximately 9.5 percent of the Danish population.

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